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Patented July 12 WITNESSES: I a Z ATTORNEYS.

TNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN TAYLOR, OF MOOREFIELD JUNCTION, WEST VIRGINIA.

FRUIT-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,337, dated July 12, 1881. Application filed March 24, 1681. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moorefield Junction, in the county of Hampshire and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fruit-Briers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

' The object of my invention is to utilize the suitable size and shape, havingits walls made hollow to forman air-chamber, a and provided with ahot-air flue, B, which incases the furnace-pipe b, said line being arranged outside and extending from base upward to a point where it is provided with an outlet for the said pipe, and bending and opening downward into the top ofthe air'chamber. In the bottom of said casing A is an enlarged portion of the air-chamber, provided with an interior air chamber or flue, a, which lsopen at one end,

for admitting the oute air, and connected at the other with hot-ai flue'B. Inside of this interior air-chamber is a furnace, a having door a and communicating at its rear end with pipe I).

It will be seen that the heat of the furnace will cause a draft of air from without to enter through the open end of air chamber or flue a, which will pass up the flue B and downward through the top of easing A into airchamber a whence it will be forced by expansion through the perforated lining 0 into the fruit-chamber G. The said fruit-chamber is provided with one or more perforated shelves, 0 through which the heated air passes down and becomes damp from absorbing the moisture in the fruit, and, in consequence of its increased weight and the pressure of the hot air ascending the flue B,itfalls through thevalve c and pipe 0 in the bottom of said chamber into the furnace. As the furnace is thus fed with hot damp air, the heat is rendered more uniform than with a cold-air blast, and a less expense of fuel is required on account of the vapor supplied to the furnace from the fruit; besides, the fruit is dried more rapidly and perfectly by havingits moisture thus carried off.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fruit-drier, the casing A, having intermediate air-chamber a and open-ended interior air chamber or flue a, communicating with flue B, in combination with a furnace and pipe, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a fruit-drier, the hot-air line B, extending above the casing and inclosing the smokepipe I), in combination with a fruit-chamber having a valve and pipe leading to the furnace, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a fruit-drier, a fruit-chamber, O, having perforated top and shelves, and valve 0 and pipe 0 in its bottom, in combination with hot-air flue B and furnace a substantially as shown and described.

JOHN TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

' W. H. POLING,

JAMES M. SMITH. 

